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I'd love to see them make something in the vein of the old Jedi Knight games, 2 and 3 were exceptional for the time. I'd guess their stories are now Legend status, but if like to see something that takes that style of 1st/3rd person dynamic lightsaber fighting with the force powers that kinda interplay. Fallen Order scratched that itch at a very surface level, but it kinda felt more like the Tomb Raider reboot trilogy than it did the classic Star Wars games.

@Broosh to be fair the average-at-best original looked pretty unique at release (cell shading wasn't a common artstyle in 3d yet) which gave it novelty value. I enjoyed it on PC, but remember playing splitscreen on a mate's GameCube and it was not great, at least on Nintendo's console at the time. I don't know how it was on PS2 but given the level of parity in the TimeSplitters series I'd guess it was similar?

@LiamCroft Phew, I'm just so used to seeing only negative comments on articles about it. My only regret is that it's not XCom 3 (yet), although I'm thinking this is that Chimera Squad was based on a tech demo for (really enjoyed it, but much less replay value than the mainline games)

I seem to be one of the only people on this site looking forward to this game, there have to be others, right?

@themightyant for me it's the voice acting; the timing of just slightly off, and I guess we're not used to hearing regional accents on games outside of medieval themed fantasy, which in have a history of being super hammy?

For what it's worth, I liked the second season, even if it was lacking in Yennifer's boobs when compared with the first. It was slow, but IMHO really paid it off towards the end.

In other matters, surely Minnie Driver is best known for her cameo in GoldenEye (https://youtu.be/aTxZeHy4kOI)? That terrible singing seared itself into my youthful mind.

Edit: I can never figure out what this site expects as the formatting for YouTube links as the guide says they're supposed to just work

@LN78 I already did before I posted it (not seeing any edits). Odd that it didn't show immediately for you though, and makes me consider editing the spoiler out completely

Started Deathloop when it was added to Extra on the 20th, and having a great time with it. I had a flu jab yesterday, so I'm feeling rather under the weather, but once I get up, I'll be diving into that again.

Discovering everything is great, and the gunplay is awesome, a lot better than Prey, with the same first person platforming that the Dishonoured series inexplicably made work, but without feeling like stealth is the only valid approach.

Really loving it, sad that it's likely to be the last Arcane game on PS5. Never saw it coming that there was the twist you discover about Juliana (while solving the RAK puzzle), real WTF moment!

I often turn off gyro aiming after giving it a go, because it rarely lives up to the promise. In this game in loving it though. I just wish the flick sticks could be only active after a threshold, do you can have 90% of the travel be normal, with a 90° turn if you dip into the last 10%.

I'm still spoiled by the Steam Controller Overlay and its many configuration options.

The obvious joke would be to suggest that it's Abandoned.

@zupertramp I can see why you'd want it, but you'd at least need elbow pads for tracking, and I'm not sure how well it would work with inside out tracking.

You only need to draw the hands when the controllers are in front of the headset, but if the controller is in front but the elbow pad is behind then you likely lose tracking and have to guess the location, which again is likely to be inaccurate.

Folks I know who work in VR gaming say that inaccurate representation of your body is much more immersion-breaking than the lack thereof, and can often seem to increase motion sickness. Showing the hands is necessary feedback for the player (because they show what you can interact with, increase player accuracy significantly) while the arms would be entirely cosmetic

@tofuman86 often because they might reference something that happens in the story and they could be considered to be spoilers

14 baby! Although a handful of those were educated guesses. Still it's the first time over 10. If only I'd played Hotline Miami.

@TheElectroFunky I see the confusion now, when you said "taking over" you meant "overtaking"

This will likely be the only full price game I buy this year other than Forbidden West (which I've played through 3 times already, but since that I've mostly been enjoying the backlog I got from PS+ Extra) and if it's even half as good as the last one it'll be worth every penny.

@Kairu maybe they want to hire people? Or they're outsourcing something and expect it to leak anyways, and this way they control the news?

The original started during prohibition (1930), but it would be great to see what happened between Sallieri and Morello before then (you see a photo at some point during when they were best mates, so a few missions before some great falling out, followed by all out war until somehow the city is divided up, part way though all of that you get the start of prohibition). The only issue with that idea is that you already know how it ends.

If Sony were to take their latest Xperia phone, weld a controller to it, and call it the Vita 2 then people would be crying out in celebration, but because they're targeting hardware people already own, the same people are in uproar.

Kinda weird, no?

This seems like a great game to chill out to, preferably with a pint by your side

I'm up to Chapter 3 of Red Dead Redemption 2, and while I'm still not seeing it for the masterpiece everyone says it is, it's worth playing.

My thumbs are feeling the punishment though, even with the accessibility options set there's just so much tapping. Crafting is a real chore, and I just wish you could say "I want to make 100 split point rifle rounds" and it fades to black, comes back with time having passed as you finish making the last one.

@Snick27 hopefully it'll continue to be aware of societal issues, as is the role of media.

Aloy always seemed ace panromantic to me.

@Th3solution to be fair it used to go towards things like education, but over the past decade of Tory rule anything useful has been stripped back until it's worryingly underfunded, without the taxpayer seeing any real reduction

@Th3solution nah, the NHS, along with State Pension, are funded by National Insurance, which comes out of earnings, VAT goes into the tax pot along with the rest of them, and pays for things like road repairs, expense fraud and paying ministers' mates contracts that they never fulfill so they'll offer those same ministers cushy board positions when they're voted out of office

@Royalblues 3rd party are just as susceptable unless they use hall-effect sensors instead of potentiometers. It used to be so bad that there would be little calibration knobs next to the stick so you could mechanically reset the zero point

@Nexozi Ah, I think you might be missing the context of them having already announced that it'll release Early 2023. It probably would have been clearer if I'd spelled out that that's what the 'if' was referring to. My bad!

@Nexozi No, I said I don't care about release date, just price - it's always good to see progress, but it doesn't mean anything to me. I'm not sure how you read what I wrote and came to that conclusion.

I'll be keeping up with the news obviously, but I'm in the middle of a house move so it's hard to prioritise something that I won't have a usable space to set up in for a while.

I've been incredibly sceptical of this game from the get-go, and honestly this gives me some hope that the gameplay might make up for some of the general jankiness that's so obviously on display (Nothing really seems to fit together - there's a lot that's individually ok or maybe even impressive, but it doesn't mesh well with the stuff it interacts with, which makes the whole much less than the sum of its parts), but I still think nothing short of it turning out to be a gameplay revolution (which it doesn't look like) will make up for voice acting that makes me want to claw my own ears off.

And speaking of voice acting - did they use text to speech for the presenter, or did they really find someone that unable to emote and make the game seem interesting?

@zebric21 It is just a brand new article?

I'm glad that this shows progress towards launch, but currently it doesn't mean anything to me. I just need a price, release date doesn't mean much to me if it's the first half of next year, as I'm likely to wait until my birthday in July anyway.

Currently I wouldn't buy it, I already have two controllers, but if one conks out I'd happily pay up to £100, but more than that I'd likely pay up to £125 if both of my controllers died.

The thing that would change that is if they supported multiple switchable pairings, but they've not advertised it, so I'll assume they don't.

I wouldn't worry too much about hall effect sensors, some third party will release a replacement module, like with the Steam Deck and the Switch

@Jtheripper because this is commodity hardware it'll come down in price as the market dictates.

The fact that the latest computers support gen 5 and this is gen 4 means that within a year or two things will come down further. The reason why XBox storage expansion is cheaper per terabyte is because it's only gen 3, but as the fab processes move on then gen 3 storage isn't going to get any cheaper (if anything it'll be more expensive due to lower manufacturing volume), so while Microsoft's strategy looks better at the start of the generation, Sony's will pull ahead significantly soon.

Backwards Compatibility means that you'd be able to use gen 4 and 5 chips in either console, but on Xbox there's the added complication of adapting it to their proprietary interface, and both consoles will be limited to the speed of their storage interface. This means that Xbox Series is limited to gen 3 speeds (which it currently reaches) and PlayStation 5 is limited to gen 4 speeds (which it's approaching, and has a theoretical maximum speed of double gen 3) so when gen 5 starts to become mainstream (with again double the theoretical speed of gen 4) then NAND packages and controllers that saturate both previous generation interfaces should be pretty cheap, meaning that you're paying the extra with Xbox to get half as fast storage in a proprietary form factor.

@TheArt I mean I've got about a month and I don't work, so I wasn't planning to rush anything

Playing Red Dead Redemption 2 before it disappears from Plus Extra. Can't say it feels like the masterpiece everyone says it is yet, but I'm only on chapter 2 so far.

@naruball sounds like one of many knowledges

Wake me up when a PS5 exclusive makes it to PC within 2 years - we get the same outrage with every PC port of a PS4 game, and people prophesising day one PC releases of first party games.

Not that I'd be against it personally, but I don't think monetising the previous generation's games to people who haven't bought the console when given almost it's entire lifespan in which to do so speaks to that as a strategy.

@get2sammyb you should see the shiz we have to put up with in the World of Darkness Discord RE Bloodlines 2

For me Premium was never going to be a good value proposition, and Extra is where it's at - I haven't owned a PlayStation before the PS5 so I'm not interested in nostalgia from games I either never played, or are in my Steam library already, and I'm not interested in streaming stuff I could just as easily play locally.

That said, those are both things a lot of people are interested in. I would guess there are a lot of awkward issues with who holds copyright for a lot of the back catalogue, but one would hope that they'd be adding first party stuff every month until their entire catalogue is on there. If it was all there day 1 then fair enough, but I don't get the impression that's the case?

The streaming isn't nothing though, as for those who share a PlayStation, or even don't have one, it means you can play on PC.

I'm not really looking forward to playing these (along with 20+% of readers), but it's fine, there's tonnes in the library it released with which I'm yet to play, some of which expire soon, and this month's Essential was pretty good too, so when you consider what I have access to this month, rather than what's added, it's pretty good)

It's pretty, sure, but how buggy is this version going to be? I love how easy it is to get going with Unity but it has never been as a stable or extendable as Unreal, and once you've written everything in C# it's hard to port to another engine so you're locked in.

@Juanalf so they can hire people to work on it, this announcement isn't for us

@nessisonett I'd disagree, but I don't want it from my gaming hardware 😉

I feel like maybe they do understand the Streisand Effect, and see the opportunity to get a tonne of marketing for the cost of a DMCA takedown notice

It's probably one of the best linear stories in games, and the Russos wouldn't be doing what they do if that wasn't what they value most.

It's not what gets me most excited, but you know, horses for courses and all that?

Double tapping the home button was a new one to me, and I'd forgotten I could change the capture buttons. Other than that the only one I didn't know is one I'll never use (changing your online status)

Meanwhile I have a clip so I can mount my phone to my "spare" Dualsense controller. Works great including all the adaptive triggers and haptic feedback

I'll probably return to do this at some point, but I've got many other games I want to play more right now

I'm leaving it a few days in the hopes that some of the jank mentioned in reviews gets fixed, but I do kinda want to dive in already

I've been playing Empire of Sin via Plus Extra. It feels like it's so close to being a good game but it's missing something I can't quite put my finger on. It's odd because I love turn based tactics, and I love the 20s mob theme.

I'll likely start Red Dead Redemption 2 next

@Ogbert this exactly. Not to mention how environmentally irresponsible NFTs and proof-of-work cryptocurrency is, when for most things all you need is a simple database (sure that centralises it, but for games you need the developer to make stuff part of the game anyway).

@Mikey856 Man, these anti piracy ads are getting really mean.

https://youtu.be/ALZZx1xmAzg

@Constable_What @Tecinthebrain

A year can also be any period of 12 months, Develop: Brighton run theirs in the summer, rather than the winter, and consider the games released during the preceding 12 months.

Edit: just saw that themightyant already made this point, but somehow not all the comments had loaded.